It's touch and go. Uh oh oh.
OK. I know it's not nice to kick something when it's down. But show me somebody who likes the SF Bay Guardian's redesign and I'll show you an employee contract. This week's cover looks especially nostalgic, with the cliched Pop Art and the new wave typeface. All future cover subjects may be required to wear pink-and-black-checkers with a white skinny tie.
Look, there wasn't an alt-weekly in the country more in need of a makeover. Yes, compared to the website, it's a step forward. In fact, now that you have competing aesthetics--the 1967 Haight-Ashbury-for-kids-from-Concord/Gay-Pride-at-half-mast-color-bar-overkill lingers like a wine-cooler-induced hangover--the online thing is a complete mess.
But even though The Cars first album is one of my favorite covers (and favorite albums) of all time, what looked good in 1978...
Ah well, you get what you pay for.
Sigh.
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